Parking & Traffic Services

Welcome to the home page for the City of Lafayette's Parking and Traffic Services. We hope the information supplied here will make your travels and parking in Lafayette more enjoyable!

Mission

Our mission is to promote safe and efficient vehicular travel and parking throughout the City Of Lafayette, Indiana, especially in the Downtown area, while encouraging utilization of more energy efficient means of travel to improve the environment and reduce the need for public parking spaces, such as by increased use of public transit, bicycles, and smaller green vehicles.

Goals

Downtown Parking

Employ the most understandable and least offensive parking management strategies that are, in so far as possible, fair, consistent, and equitable to all.

Maximize off-street options for parking for downtown business and service owners and employees.

Maximize on-street parking available to downtown visitors, shoppers, and service seekers.

Preserve the most convenient and proximate parking spaces, both on-street and off-street, for short-term parking patrons, while encouraging long-term parking patrons to park in spaces less proximate to their destinations.

Promote Downtown parking as welcoming, friendly and gracious to all users, while encouraging and expecting observance of the City Code and all parking regulations.

Recognize that parking in the Downtown area is a business and a service of the city, and as such, must follow a business model that is financially self-sustaining and founded on economic principles to be less dependent on public taxes.

Neighborhood Parking

Traffic

Employ a system of distinctive neighborhood signs to designate historic and local residential neighborhoods.

Employ a system of wayfinding signs and kiosks in the Downtown area to guide travelers and residents to important local destinations.

Promote alternative means of transportation to reduce the need for on-street and off-street parking and improve the environment through relationships, communication, partnerships, and cooperation with mass transit providers and development of bicycle and walking trails.

Contacts

The City of Lafayette utilizes a number of public and private agencies to oversee parking and transportation services. Please use the list below to contact specific departments with your questions or comments.